Preliminary Program

Poster Presentations

15:45 - 16:00

Transition Break

Concurrent sessions

• Bridging the divide: Supporting organizations to use their own research
• Equipping outdoor spaces at schools and child-care settings to promote child health and well-being, health equity, and climate resiliency
• Equity-informed responses to the growing public health threat of wildfires and smoke: Perspectives from the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health
• The future of digital public health: Human-centred AI and extended reality for precision prevention of public health crises
• Gender-specific response to the opioid epidemic: Integrating evidence-based research to inform gender-specific policy and practices
• *Rebuilding trust in vaccines: Insights and actions
• Strengthening settler capacity to uphold Indigenous rights, truth, and reconciliation through the Colonial Knot Review Collective
• Oral Abstract Sessions 1 & 2

Concurrent sessions

• 10-year anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action: Truth telling in public health
• Bridging disciplines, breaking silos: Collaborative environmental health strategies for a changing world
• Enhancing surveillance for better insights: Bridging data to actions addressing health inequities
• *Filière économique de la prévention : une occasion stratégique pour le Canada
• Research about youth, by youth, for youth: A workshop to operationalize the Canadian Journal of Public Health’s new guidelines on youth engagement
• Sustaining trust, advancing equity – Emerging challenges and opportunities in vaccination: An Applied Public Health Chairs symposium
• Oral Abstract Sessions 3 - 5

11:30 - 13:00

Concurrent sessions

• Bridging evidence and action: Lessons in making data accessible, actionable, and impactful
• Building connections for Black health: Engaging public health and preventive medicine physicians and residents to address structural anti-Black racism
• Building trust in turbulent times: A community-driven rapid research response to wildfires and Indigenous displacement
• Community engagement as a transformative force in public health: A symposium with Applied Public Health Chairs
• Mapping education curricula and public health practice training initiatives to Canada’s updated core competencies
• The Ottawa Charter, 40 years on: Celebrating global and regional progress, and renewing our commitment to health promotion
• Pandemic preparedness through behavioural science: An enhanced iCARE partnership to tackle public trust
• Oral Abstract Sessions 6 & 7

Networking Lunch with Sponsors and Exhibitors

Concurrent session

• Calling in public health leaders, researchers, and practitioners to make ripples of change for equity
• Investing in tomorrow: Developing the next generation of emergency responders in Canada
• Making it make sense: Practical skills for evidence-informed decision-making in public health
• A national conversation on cultural safety and Indigenous-specific racism indicators, Indigenous data governance, and data stewardship
• Nurturing Algoma: Advancing infant mental health and resilience through the Canadian database of development, infancy to six, and community-wide collaboration
• The politics and profit of disinformation in public health
• Oral Abstract Sessions 8—10

Concurrent sessions

• Advancing health equity using frameworks with learnings from co-created, practice-based, and published evidence
• Building multilingual trust: Countering health misinformation through faith-based and community-led outreach
• Cultivating change: Public health actions to transform food systems and advance food justice
• Equity in crises: Addressing inequities in emergency contexts
• Integrating modelling and economics into public health decision-making to optimize health outcomes: Current practice and future opportunities
• Restoring Indigenous jurisdiction and data sovereignty: A treaty-based tool for research governance
• Weight stigma as a social determinant of health: Toward more inclusive public health approaches

11:00 - 12:30

Concurrent sessions

• Addressing misconceptions about behavioural science in public health: Setting the record straight!
• Flexible surge solutions for public health emergencies: Filling gaps in hard-to-reach Canadian communities
• Harnessing data for action: Health data to inform public health initiatives for the unhoused population
• How can public health programs and guidelines consider impacts on planetary health?
• Ontario’s implementation of RSV immunization programs across the lifespan: Lessons from the first three seasons
• A practical workshop towards assessing, understanding, and applying infectious disease modelling research in public health
• Publishing in the Canadian Journal of Public Health: Tips from the Editor-in-Chief
• Reckon, rebuild and reimagine: Critical reflexivity for anti-racist public health action